xxii, 420 pages : 26 cm

Designed to support students and teachers working across the range of language, literature and culture, The English Studies Book combines the functions of study guide, critical dictionary and text anthology. Revised and updated throughout, features of the second edition include: a prologue addressing changes in English studies entries on over 100 critical and theoretical terms practical introductions to the major theoretical approaches, with new sections on aesthetics, ethics, ecology and sexuality an anthology of literary and related texts from Anglo-Saxon to Afro-Caribbean, with fresh selections on the sonnet, haiku, slave narratives and science fiction, and additional texts by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Darwin, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Amy Tan and others handy frameworks and checklists for close reading, research, essay writing and other textual activities, including use of the Internet

Previous edition: 1998

Includes bibliographical references and index

pt. 1. Introduction to English studies -- pt. 2. Theoretical positions and practical approaches -- pt. 3. Common topics -- pt. 4. Textual activities and learning strategies -- pt. 5. Anthology of sample texts -- pt. 6. Glossary of grammatical and linguistic terms

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